***** Description *****
This replication archive contains all data and code to replicate the main tables
and figures in "When Extremism Pays: Policy Positions, Voter Certainty, and Party 
Support in Postcommunist Europe" by Lawrence Ezrow, Jonathan Homola, and Margit 
Tavits.



***** File Overview *****
** R scripts **
EzrowHomolaTavits_WhenExtremismPays.R -- R script to generate Tables 1-4 and
Figure 1.


** Data files **
EzrowHomolaTavits_WhenExtremismPays_Data.dta -- The main dataset contains 
information on party and voter positions, (normalized) party vote shares, and 
other relevant variables. This dataset is used to create the Tables and Figures
in the text.



***** Additional Information *****
The following R packages were used to produce the results:
1) foreign version 0.8-67
2) sandwich version 2.3-4
3) psych version 1.6.9
4) stargazer version 5.2
5) xtable version 1.8-2
6) lmtest version 0.9-34



***** References *****
Ezrow, Lawrence, Jonathan Homola, and Margit Tavits. 2014. "When Extremism Pays:
Policy Positions, Voter Certainty, and Party Support in Postcommunist Europe." 
Journal of Politics 76: 535-547.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022381613001461

APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter, Fall 2014: "Party Positioning and Election 
Outcomes: Comparing Post-Communist Europe to Established Democracies."
http://charlescrabtree.com/archived_newsletters/2014_fall.pdf